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Time Of Death: Nature, Forensics and the Search for Death's Stopwatch - Couverture souple

Sachs, Jessica Snyder

 
9780099435433: Time Of Death: Nature, Forensics and the Search for Death's Stopwatch
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0099435438 ISBN 13 : 9780099435433
Editeur : Arrow Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Despite repeated claims and breakthroughs, forensic scientists are little better equipped to establish with any real degree of precision the exact time at which a victim of crime (or indeed anyone else, were there no witnesses) died. Over the last two centuries, scientists and detectives have attempted to rely on body temperature, evidence of rigor mortis and decomposition, the decay of the vitreous humor of the eye, the stages of digestion of the body's last meal, the progress of the insects that prey of dead bodies, all eventually without total conviction. Death is a gradual and highly variable business, dependent on a myriad of factors, and the expert witnesses at the trial of O J Simpson could be little more precise than the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Gloriously written and ghoulishly fascinating, studded with the details of crucial cases, this is true crime at its most fascinating.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jessica Snyder Sachs is a freelance health and science writer. Time of Death is her first book.

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Éditeur
Arrow Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0099435438
ISBN 13 
9780099435433
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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